Results 1-20 of 28 for smoking speaker:Lord Stratford

Liverpool City Council (Prohibition of Smoking in Places of Work) Bill [HL] (20 Jul 2005)

Lord Stratford: ...just fond memories. Of course I might not survive the transition from political pugilist to polite Peer, but I will give it my best shot and see who cracks first. Before turning to the Bills to ban smoking in places of work, I record my grateful thanks to my two noble friends who supported me when I was introduced to your Lordships' House on 4 July. The noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, and...

Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill (1 Nov 2004)

Mr Tony Banks: ...—Government involvement should be minimal. Life is not of course simple and straightforward, and there will always be those who take any activity to excess, whether it is gambling, drinking, smoking, eating, shopping, or, indeed, sex. Such people need help, but I assume that we would not seriously consider banning the activities in order to protect the obsessive minority to the...

Drugs Strategy (9 Nov 2001)

Mr Tony Banks: ...of people who use cannabis, cocaine and other drugs. The crime is associated with the drug trade—supplying drugs that are currently illegal. If, for example, the Government were to say that smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol is far more harmful to an individual's health than smoking cannabis or snorting cocaine, they would be right—but they would be mad to do so, because...

Legalisation of Cannabis Bill (26 Oct 2001)

Mr Tony Banks: ...that we are progressing towards the full legalisation of cannabis. It is right to do so because it is a matter of personal freedom. It is the duty of Governments not to tell people what they should smoke—or, indeed, what they should sniff up their noses—but to intervene where third parties are affected by people's habits.

Legalisation of Cannabis Bill (26 Oct 2001)

Mr Tony Banks: No, I am not giving way. As my hon. Friend said in reply to a question by the hon. Member for Romford (Mr. Rosindell), there is no suggestion that people should be encouraged to smoke cannabis. I have never taken cannabis and have not the slightest intention of doing so because I do not want to inhale anything into my lungs. I do not smoke cigarettes either. As for the impact of cannabis as...

Home Affairs and Constitution (27 Jun 2001)

Mr Tony Banks: ...the new leader of the Conservative party turns out to be the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke), he will have to be mummified so that he can see out his time as leader. He smokes so many cigarettes that he has probably kippered himself already. We will be asked about delivery of services such as health, education, law and order, transport, and we cannot be...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 4 - Rates of tobacco products duty (26 Apr 2001)

Mr Tony Banks: ...point argued that tobacco duty should be increased on health grounds, to limit the consumption of tobacco, but would all Governments really want tobacco duty completely eliminated because no one smokes any more? I suspect not, because the duty makes such a significant contribution to Treasury receipts. If the Government were looking seriously at the issue from a health point of view, they...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (30 Jan 2001)

Mr Tony Banks: .... How often have we heard Ministers of this and previous Governments quoting scientists as if they were gods and infallible? I remember scientists saying that there was no connection between smoking and lung cancer and no way in which BSE could ever get into the food chain. As Members of Parliament, we must sometimes think logically for ourselves and ask ourselves what an issues means to...

Prayers: Drugs Misuse (18 Oct 1995)

Mr Tony Banks: ...a proper look at this country's statistics, we would come up with a similar percentage. As to health, it should be remembered that people taking soft drugs do themselves less damage than those who smoke or drink—yet the latter do not have to buy their products on prescription. Alcohol and nicotine are freely available in the shops, under licensed conditions. Imagine what would...

Drug Misuse (9 Jun 1995)

Mr Tony Banks: ..., it could lead to an expansion of cannabis use. My arguments are that, if someone wants to use cannabis, it is a personal decision. Far more damage to a person's health is caused by nicotine, smoking cigarettes and alcohol. Once a substance is legalised, it enables us to regulate the quality, put in place far more drug reduction schemes and give far more advice. As it is a legal activity,...

Drug Misuse (9 Jun 1995)

Mr Tony Banks: ...White Paper does not tackle any of the basic causes. I accept that that was not its purpose. However, unless one is able to start understanding why people use drugs, drink alcohol to excess or even smoke cigarettes, because there is a reason for all those things—

Drug Misuse (9 Jun 1995)

Mr Tony Banks: ...Newham, South of using a bicycle to travel in London, they would undoubtedly be far healthier than they are now, although the atmosphere in London is probably as poisonous as a packet of 20 fags smoked one after another. The thought of my hon. Friend cycling down the Highway towards Newham on his bike with a spliff in his mouth would engender a great deal of amusement in some people. One...

Drug Misuse (9 Jun 1995)

Mr Tony Banks: ...has taken cannabis, yet we know, privately—never publicly—that some hon. Members have said that they have. I have not noticed them being hooked. Has the hon. Gentleman ever in his life smoked cannabis or ingested it in any way?

Vegetarianism (8 Mar 1995)

Mr Tony Banks: ..., many of which are daily stuffed with cholesterol-rich food, nicotine and alcohol. A Department of Health report published last week revealed that English men and women are getting fatter and smoking and drinking too much. Regrettably, in that respect we are very much in step with those we represent. Among those surveyed, it was felt that stress was adversely affecting people's health,...

Drug Abuse (15 Feb 1995)

Mr Tony Banks: ...pop stars who readily confessed to using the stuff, was merely a sign of my proficiency with nicotine in my earlier years when I "rolled my own". I still have that skill, although I no longer smoke nicotine. The hon. Member for Eastbourne mentioned 100,000 or so smoking-related deaths. From a health point of view, it is far more damaging for people to smoke cigarettes or to drink alcohol...

Street Disorder and Begging Law Reform (21 Jun 1994)

Mr Tony Banks: ...know what the hon. Gentleman is really talking about. Suddenly it has become the thing for Tories to pick a group of people or a very small problem, inflate it out of all proportion and use it as a smoke screen to cover their failure to deal with the many social problems afflicting this country. The hon. Member for Milton Keynes, North-East mentioned the "cancer" that was eating away at...

Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill: Prevention of Misuse of Drugs by Young People (28 Mar 1994)

Mr Tony Banks: .... I am not advocating drug use. I have never used the stuff, nor do I intend to, although I do not object to it. If someone gave me a hash brownie, I would probably pop it down, but I would not smoke hash because I do not like smoke getting into my lungs. I am not advocating drug use, but decriminalisation would have some tangible benefits. One benefit is that it would allow up to 5...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill (11 Feb 1994)

Mr Tony Banks: The reason why people—as I am—are so bitterly opposed to smoking is that it affects non-smokers. I do not care what the hon. Gentleman wants to do in private, because that has nothing to do with me, but when it starts impacting on my health and makes my clothes and hair stink, I have a right to say that I do not want someone smoking around me.

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising Bill (11 Feb 1994)

Mr Tony Banks: I am sure that the House will agree that the statistic of 110,000 people a year dying from smoking-related diseases is appalling. Why, then, does hardly anyone die from the smoking or using of cannabis? If we treat this as a health issue, cannot a case be made for banning nicotine and legalising cannabis?

Adjournment (Spring) (18 May 1993)

Mr Tony Banks: ..., we should consider legalising cannabis and declaring alcohol and nicotine illegal. Alcohol is involved in many health problems and in violence. As for nicotine, 110,000 people per year die from smoking-related diseases. I have heard of no one who has died from a disease related to the use of cannabis.